#edmundburke — Public Fediverse posts

Konservativismus, wofür steht das eigentlich? Schauen wir uns doch einfach mal die Definition an:

„[lat.] K. (auch: Konservativismus) ist eine politische Weltanschauung, die die Stärken der Tradition hervorhebt, die herrschende Politische Ordnung bewahrt bzw. stärkt und die vorgegebene Verteilung von Macht und Reichtum vor Kritik schützt. Die drei wichtigsten Prinzipien des K. sind daher […]

Konservativismus, wofür steht das eigentlich? Schauen wir uns doch einfach mal die Definition an:

„[lat.] K. (auch: Konservativismus) ist eine politische Weltanschauung, die die Stärken der Tradition hervorhebt, die herrschende Politische Ordnung bewahrt bzw. stärkt und die vorgegebene Verteilung von Macht und Reichtum vor Kritik schützt. Die drei wichtigsten Prinzipien des K. sind daher […]

Konservativismus, wofür steht das eigentlich? Schauen wir uns doch einfach mal die Definition an:

„[lat.] K. (auch: Konservativismus) ist eine politische Weltanschauung, die die Stärken der Tradition hervorhebt, die herrschende Politische Ordnung bewahrt bzw. stärkt und die vorgegebene Verteilung von Macht und Reichtum vor Kritik schützt. Die drei wichtigsten Prinzipien des K. sind daher […]

Konservativismus, wofür steht das eigentlich? Schauen wir uns doch einfach mal die Definition an:

„[lat.] K. (auch: Konservativismus) ist eine politische Weltanschauung, die die Stärken der Tradition hervorhebt, die herrschende Politische Ordnung bewahrt bzw. stärkt und die vorgegebene Verteilung von Macht und Reichtum vor Kritik schützt. Die drei wichtigsten Prinzipien des K. sind daher […]

Konservativismus, wofür steht das eigentlich? Schauen wir uns doch einfach mal die Definition an:

„[lat.] K. (auch: Konservativismus) ist eine politische Weltanschauung, die die Stärken der Tradition hervorhebt, die herrschende Politische Ordnung bewahrt bzw. stärkt und die vorgegebene Verteilung von Macht und Reichtum vor Kritik schützt. Die drei wichtigsten Prinzipien des K. sind daher […]

Kevin Hollinrake: Conference gave us back our confidence, now it’s time for every Conservative to share our message

Kevin Hollinrake is Chairman of the Conservative Party. At Conservative Campaign Headquarters, we know very well that “…
#London #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Britain #CCHQ #Conservatism #ConservativePartyConference2025 #EdmundBurke #FirstJobsBonus #GreatBritain #Horizonscandal #KemiBadenochMP #london #StampDuty
https://www.europesays.com/uk/495343/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/495343/ Kevin Hollinrake: Conference gave us back our confidence, now it’s time for every Conservative to share our message #Britain #CCHQ #Conservatism #ConservativePartyConference2025 #EdmundBurke #England #FirstJobsBonus #GreatBritain #HorizonScandal #KemiBadenochMP #london #StampDuty #UK #UnitedKingdom

Eine kleine Kritik des heutigen Konservatismus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9tW_zjM6lo

#DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #Revolutionen #EdmundBurke

🔴 📖 **Reappraising a controversial figure: Ross Carroll’s Edmund Burke**

Morien Robertson

“_Burke was not just a thinker and writer, but a constantly active politician and agitator, who pushed for a variety of causes that might be called progressive, and admonished the failings of the British elite, particularly with regards to the colonial administration in India._”

🔗 https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025/03/24/reappraising-a-controversial-figure-ross-carrolls-edmund-burke/.

#Conservatism #EdmundBurke #Nonfiction #Politics #BookReview #Book #Bookstodon @bookstodon

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #EdmundBurke #Evil #Good

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Flowers #Junkyard #Minnesota

"Dined with him at the Ton, Billingsgate. At dinner time he was missed; and was found at a fishmonger's, learning the history of pickled salmon."

Samuel Rogers, Tabletalk & Recollections, Edmund Burke chapter.

Clearly, Burke was a Mastodonian before Mastodon.

#SamuelRogers #EdmundBurke #curiosity #MastodonCulture

"[Burke] in argument puts out his whole strength, but is ready to listen, and full of inquiry."

Samuel Rogers, Tabletalk and Recollections.

#SamuelRogers #EdmundBurke #listening

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #EdmundBurke #Evil #Good

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Rainbow #MississippiRiver #Iowa

Two gentlemen admire the statue of Edmund Burke outside Trinity College Dublin. c1870. The National Library of Ireland. No known copyright restrictions.

#EdmundBurke #TrinityCollegeDublin #Dublin #Ireland #19thCentury

« He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. »

― Edmund Burke

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/722412286057332736/he-that-wrestles-with-us-strengthens-our-nerves

#quotes #EdmundBurke #antagonism #teaching #skills

It’s like a never-ending Burkean loop

http://inaniludibrio.com/2024/03/01/its-like-a-never-ending-burkean-loop/

#EdmundBurke #history #rhetoric

Two gentlemen admiring the statue of Edmund Burke outside Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. c1870. The National Library of Ireland. No known copyright restrictions.

#EdmundBurke #TrinityCollegeDublin #Dublin #Ireland #19thCentury

@wtsparrow A lovely example of Sheridan defusing poor #EdmundBurke's drama-queening. (Is there a statue of Sheridan in Dublin? I can't think of one, though Burke has his in front of Trinity.)

#DublinLights

#EdmundBurke and #OliverGoldsmith silhouetted against the #Trinity frontage.

#TCD #Christmas #Dublin #December #photo

TONIGHT Saturday 30th September 7:30pm

'Price of Change', a play by Vic Mills as part of a series of events celebrating the life of polymath #RichardPrice in #Blaengarw, see:

https://openstreetmap.cymru?h=51.62615623092187&ll=-3.590662479400635&ch=16&p=1&t=7.30pm%2030.9.23%20'Price%20of%20Change'%20

with music by Steve Preston
Supported by Awen Cultural Trust
Sponsored by Bridgend County Borough Council

#DrRichardPrice
#EdmundBurke
#BenjaminFranklin
#MaryWollstonecraft

Burke among the flowers

#tcd #EdmundBurke #WildFlowers #Dublin #photo

#OliverGoldsmith died #OTD 1774. Novelist, poet, playwright. He lived by his pen, also writing philosophical essays, including on aesthetics (as debated by Berkeley, Hutcheson, Burke) https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/04/04/goldsmith-coda/

Wrote first bio of #GeorgeBerkeley including this wild story from college days https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/06/23/berkeley-strung-out/

Wrote an early elegy for a selection of friends, including #EdmundBurke https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/04/04/here-lies-edmund/

The original "Citizen of the World" https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-95900-9_3

#IrishPhilosophyOTD

RT @JoeHumphreys42 on Twitter

[Wollstonecraft]'s breakthrough work "A Vindication of the Rights of Men" (1790) was ironically an attack on TCD grandee #EdmundBurke who she lambasted with a fair dose of anti-Irish sentiment and reverse sexism.

UCD's Katherine O’Donnell explains here: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/was-ireland-s-most-prominent-philosopher-too-womanly-1.3498724

Link to Katherine O’Donnell's paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336239122_Effeminate_Edmund_Burke_and_the_masculine_voice_of_Mary_Wollstonecraft

The full thread https://mobile.twitter.com/JoeHumphreys42/status/1620820823673282560

#IrishPhilosophy #Wollstonecraft

What Is the Ideal World? 5 Utopias Proposed by Famous Philosophers.

Includes the satirical #Utopia of #EdmundBurke presented in "A Vindication of Natural Society". Parodying Bolingbrook and others, it's not conservative, and lacks much of a state, or religion. Its proponents in "Vindication" report doubts "that the Creator did ever really intend Man for a State of Happiness", with no prospect of optimism for the future or hereafter.

https://www.thecollector.com/what-is-the-ideal-world-according-to-famous-philosophers/

Born #OTD 1729, Edmund Burke first entered Parliament for Wendover in 1765. In 1770, he wrote a pamphlet defending the Rockingham Whigs. Find out more about his alignment with the Whig party👇 http://ow.ly/HG4M50M17n4

@histodons @histodon #18thCentury #Whigs #EdmundBurke #Burke

Burke to the Future: The Evolution of Conservatism

How #EdmundBurke became the favourite of the Conservative Party and (as a result) the "founder of conservatism".

https://www.historytoday.com/history-matters/burke-future-evolution-conservatism

From "History Today"
#IrishPhilosophy

(2) "Every event so prepares the subsequent, that when it arrives, it produces no surprise nor any extraordinary alarm. I am certain that if pains, and great and immediate pains, are not taken to prevent it, such must be the fate of this Country."

(Quote taken from https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2023/01/another-brexit-year-begins.html?m=1 (used by David Frost), originally in a letter from #EdmundBurke to the Marquis of Rockingham, Aug. 23, 1775)

(1) Think #EdmundBurke has received undeserved bad UK press of late, but this is still a belter of a quote

"A nation may slide down fair and softly from the highest point of grandeur and prosperity to the lowest state of imbecility and meanness, without anyone marking a particular period in this declension, without asking a question about it, or in the least speculating on any of the innumerable acts which have stolen in this silent and insensible revolution.
..."

My first post here was 10 days ago, & the very first reply sent me down a fascinating #RabbitHole
🕳️ 🐇 to a #Britain in which #Tories push for a fairer society with a #MinimumWage & expanded #WelfareBenefits, & our most beloved novelist skewers their opponents. Relevant holiday reading?

Here's the conversation, long 🧵 - what an intro to #Fediverse!
https://h-net.social/@ClaireFromClare/109556329817289341

#JaneAusten #UKpolitics
#WilliamPitt #PoorLaws
#EdmundBurke #CatherineDeBourgh
#CharacterNames #PrideAndPrejudice

My first post here was 10 days ago, & the very first reply sent me down a fascinating #RabbitHole
🕳️ 🐇 to a #Britain in which #Tories push for a fairer society with a #MinimumWage & expanded #WelfareBenefits, & our most beloved novelist skewers their opponents. Relevant holiday reading?

Here's the conversation, long 🧵 - what an intro to #Fediverse!
https://h-net.social/@ClaireFromClare/109556329817289341

#JaneAusten #UKpolitics
#WilliamPitt #PoorLaws
#EdmundBurke #CatherineDeBourgh
#CharacterNames #PrideAndPrejudice

My first post here was 10 days ago, & the very first reply sent me down a fascinating #RabbitHole
🕳️ 🐇 to a #Britain in which #Tories push for a fairer society with a #MinimumWage & expanded #WelfareBenefits, & our most beloved novelist skewers their opponents. Relevant holiday reading?

Here's the conversation, long 🧵 - what an intro to #Fediverse!
https://h-net.social/@ClaireFromClare/109556329817289341

#JaneAusten #UKpolitics
#WilliamPitt #PoorLaws
#EdmundBurke #CatherineDeBourgh
#CharacterNames #PrideAndPrejudice

My first post here was 10 days ago, & the very first reply sent me down a fascinating #RabbitHole
🕳️ 🐇 to a #Britain in which #Tories push for a fairer society with a #MinimumWage & expanded #WelfareBenefits, & our most beloved novelist skewers their opponents. Relevant holiday reading?

Here's the conversation, long 🧵 - what an intro to #Fediverse!
https://h-net.social/@ClaireFromClare/109556329817289341

#JaneAusten #UKpolitics
#WilliamPitt #PoorLaws
#EdmundBurke #CatherineDeBourgh
#CharacterNames #PrideAndPrejudice

My first post here was 10 days ago, & the very first reply sent me down a fascinating #RabbitHole
🕳️ 🐇 to a #Britain in which #Tories push for a fairer society with a #MinimumWage & expanded #WelfareBenefits, & our most beloved novelist skewers their opponents. Relevant holiday reading?

Here's the conversation, long 🧵 - what an intro to #Fediverse!
https://h-net.social/@ClaireFromClare/109556329817289341

#JaneAusten #UKpolitics
#WilliamPitt #PoorLaws
#EdmundBurke #CatherineDeBourgh
#CharacterNames #PrideAndPrejudice

@Tony_Meredith #EdmundBurke’s 1795 ‘Thoughts and Details on Scarcity’ argued that “the monopoly of capital… is a great benefit… particularly to the poor”, & “very few have actually died of want”. Full text online at https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004903053.0001.000
Online dictionaries say that the disparaging slang ‘#berk’ first appeared in the 1930s. Janine Barchas has noted that #JaneAusten books were popular among the working classes in the mid 19th century, so an earlier origin would not have surprised me.

@Tony_Meredith Sheryl Craig & Janine Barchas have documented the political context & other #CharacterNames convincingly, but although the characters of #EdmundBurke & the fictitious #CatherineDeBourgh are discussed, & other #Whig names make political references clear, I have not seen the name discussed explicitly.
Modern readers may not realise that these are variant spellings? but there were Irish #Burgh & #Burke peers in Jane’s time, both using variants of the original Burgh arms.

@Tony_Meredith However, the general reader would surely have recognised an allusion to #EdmundBurke, & the contrast to #EarlFitzwilliam & the D’Arcy & Darby families who supported Pitt’s proposals to help the poor. Burke also opposed the meritocracy which enabled the rise of Jane's brothers.

I recommend ‘#PrideAndPrejudice and the #PoorLaws’ by Sheryl Craig, https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Pride+and+Prejudice+and+poor+laws.-a0370031582
- fascinating in the context of current #UKpolitics!

#JaneAusten #FairPay #MinimumWage #SafetyNet #SupportNHS

@Tony_Meredith However, the general reader would surely have recognised an allusion to #EdmundBurke, & the contrast to #EarlFitzwilliam & the D’Arcy & Darby families who supported Pitt’s proposals to help the poor. Burke also opposed the meritocracy which enabled the rise of Jane's brothers.

I recommend ‘#PrideAndPrejudice and the #PoorLaws’ by Sheryl Craig, https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Pride+and+Prejudice+and+poor+laws.-a0370031582
- fascinating in the context of current #UKpolitics!

#JaneAusten #FairPay #MinimumWage #SafetyNet #SupportNHS

@Tony_Meredith However, the general reader would surely have recognised an allusion to #EdmundBurke, & the contrast to #EarlFitzwilliam & the D’Arcy & Darby families who supported Pitt’s proposals to help the poor. Burke also opposed the meritocracy which enabled the rise of Jane's brothers.

I recommend ‘#PrideAndPrejudice and the #PoorLaws’ by Sheryl Craig, https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Pride+and+Prejudice+and+poor+laws.-a0370031582
- fascinating in the context of current #UKpolitics!

#JaneAusten #FairPay #MinimumWage #SafetyNet #SupportNHS

@Tony_Meredith However, the general reader would surely have recognised an allusion to #EdmundBurke, & the contrast to #EarlFitzwilliam & the D’Arcy & Darby families who supported Pitt’s proposals to help the poor. Burke also opposed the meritocracy which enabled the rise of Jane's brothers.

I recommend ‘#PrideAndPrejudice and the #PoorLaws’ by Sheryl Craig, https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Pride+and+Prejudice+and+poor+laws.-a0370031582
- fascinating in the context of current #UKpolitics!

#JaneAusten #FairPay #MinimumWage #SafetyNet #SupportNHS

@Tony_Meredith However, the general reader would surely have recognised an allusion to #EdmundBurke, & the contrast to #EarlFitzwilliam & the D’Arcy & Darby families who supported Pitt’s proposals to help the poor. Burke also opposed the meritocracy which enabled the rise of Jane's brothers.

I recommend ‘#PrideAndPrejudice and the #PoorLaws’ by Sheryl Craig, https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Pride+and+Prejudice+and+poor+laws.-a0370031582
- fascinating in the context of current #UKpolitics!

#JaneAusten #FairPay #MinimumWage #SafetyNet #SupportNHS

"I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against alarge stone, till he rebounded from it, ‘I refute it THUS.’" - #DrJohnson's attempted refutation of #Berkeley as recorded by Boswell.

The reason this doesn't work as an argument is outlined in this post, with bonus #JonathanSwift and #EdmundBurke
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/03/12/berkeleys-immaterialism/
#IrishPhilosophy

#OliverGoldsmith was born (probably in #Pallas, near where Centerparc Longford is now) probably on 10 Nov 1728. An alumnus of #TCD, he lived by his writing: novelist, playwright, poet, reviewer, essayist. His work included philosophical content including the review of #EdmundBurke's theory of #aesthetics described here https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/04/04/goldsmith-coda/

Goldsmith's biography in #DIB https://www.dib.ie/biography/goldsmith-oliver-a3516

Image: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goldsmith.jpg

#IrishPhilosophy #IrishPhilosophyOTD